A motion was passed at council’s May 14 meeting to have town staff examine the intersection at Vancouver, Water and Main streets to see if changes are needed to make things easier for traffic.
One option that will be looked at is whether Water Street can be widened for trucks turning right onto the foot of Vancouver Street. It was stated that it is a very difficult turn for large trucks to manevour and it was
suggested that perhaps giving truckers an extra 10 feet where green space now exists could help their situation.
Another issue that will be looked at is the median. Should it stay? Go? Be cut back?
“I’d like to see us take that median out of there,” said Councillor Ken Langille, calling it the “mystery median” that surfaced in between a couple of traffic studies many years ago. He feels the median impedes traffic flow and has just become a catch-all for garbage that blows through the area.
Councillor Danny MacIsaac also called the median problematic.
Town CAO Jeff Gushue said the median was put in to help regulate the flow of traffic at this “awkward” intersection. He said while the median probably does create an “irritation,” this is balanced out by the fact that it does help to control the traffic flow.
Councillor Sandy Dennis doesn’t want to see council rushing into a decision. “I don’t want to see us wasting tax dollars on putting it in, taking it out and then having a problem again. So I really want a good study done on this before we make any decision,” she said.
Mayor Pam Mood, meanwhile, thinks the median serves a purpose, saying before its presence the intersection was a “tangled mess.”
A motion was passed at council’s May 14 meeting to have town staff examine the intersection at Vancouver, Water and Main streets to see if changes are needed to make things easier for traffic.
One option that will be looked at is whether Water Street can be widened for trucks turning right onto the foot of Vancouver Street. It was stated that it is a very difficult turn for large trucks to manevour and it was
suggested that perhaps giving truckers an extra 10 feet where green space now exists could help their situation.
Another issue that will be looked at is the median. Should it stay? Go? Be cut back?
“I’d like to see us take that median out of there,” said Councillor Ken Langille, calling it the “mystery median” that surfaced in between a couple of traffic studies many years ago. He feels the median impedes traffic flow and has just become a catch-all for garbage that blows through the area.
Councillor Danny MacIsaac also called the median problematic.
Town CAO Jeff Gushue said the median was put in to help regulate the flow of traffic at this “awkward” intersection. He said while the median probably does create an “irritation,” this is balanced out by the fact that it does help to control the traffic flow.
Councillor Sandy Dennis doesn’t want to see council rushing into a decision. “I don’t want to see us wasting tax dollars on putting it in, taking it out and then having a problem again. So I really want a good study done on this before we make any decision,” she said.
Mayor Pam Mood, meanwhile, thinks the median serves a purpose, saying before its presence the intersection was a “tangled mess.”
